After Democracy
ISBN: 9780300245967
Published: 2021
Number of pages: 176
Format: Hardback
Format: 21.6×14
Published: 2021
Number of pages: 176
Format: Hardback
Format: 21.6×14
Description
Democracy has long been considered an ideal state of governance. What if it's not? Perhaps it is not the end goal but, rather, a transition stage to something better. Drawing on original interviews conducted with citizens of more than thirty countries, Zizi Papacharissi explores what democracy is, what it means to be a citizen, and what can be done to enhance governance. As she probes the ways governments can better serve their citizens and evolve in positive ways, Papacharissi gives a voice to everyday people, whose ideas and experiences of capitalism, media, and education can help shape future governing practices. This book expands on the well-known difficulties of realizing the intimacy of democracy in a global world – the "democratic paradox" – and presents a concrete vision of how communications technologies can be harnessed to implement representative equality, information equality, and civic literacy.
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